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Sir Harold Delf Gillies

Portrait of Sir Harold Gillies on his
Knighthood in 1930. Image
courtesy of The Wellcome Library, London.

New Zealander Sir Harold Delf Gillies is widely accepted as the Father of modern day facial reconstruction. Gillies was sent to France by the Red Cross, and found himself assisting a French-American dentist, Valadier at Wimereux, near Boulogne, Seeking further inspiration from surgeon Hippolyte Morestin at the Val-de-Grâce Military Hospital near Paris, otolaryngologist Gillies persuaded Sir Arbuthnot Lane, head of surgery for the British Army, to allow him a ward specifically for the treatment of facial injuries at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. more...

Stereoscopic Lithography and Rapid Prototyping

Stereoscopic Lithography and Rapid Prototyping are types of model production using three-dimensional imaging technology and three-dimensional printing systems. An object is either designed as a 3D form in a computer or a real object is placed in a scanner that reads every surface of the object.

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The Battle of the Somme, 1916

Comprising the main Allied attack on the Western Front during 1916, the Battle of the Somme is famous chiefly on account of the loss of 58,000 British troops (one third of them killed) on the first day of the battle, 1 July 1916, which to this day remains a one-day record. The attack was launched upon a 30 kilometers front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert, and ran from 1 July until 18 November, at which point it was called off.